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Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star

I. López-Calvo
Roberto Bola o a Less Distant Star Book PDF

Author : I. López-Calvo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781137492968

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Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star by I. López-Calvo Pdf

Roberto Bolaño has attained an almost mythical stature and is often considered the most influential Latin American writer of his generation. The first English-language volume of essays on the Chilean author, Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays, includes ten critical essays of his oeuvre. With a special emphasis on his masterpieces: 2666, The Savage Detectives, By Night in Chile, and Distant Star, the essays address topics such as Borges's influence and the role of repetition, social memory, allegory, and neoliberalism.

Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star

I. López-Calvo
Roberto Bola o a Less Distant Star Book PDF

Author : I. López-Calvo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781137492968

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Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star by I. López-Calvo Pdf

Roberto Bolaño has attained an almost mythical stature and is often considered the most influential Latin American writer of his generation. The first English-language volume of essays on the Chilean author, Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays, includes ten critical essays of his oeuvre. With a special emphasis on his masterpieces: 2666, The Savage Detectives, By Night in Chile, and Distant Star, the essays address topics such as Borges's influence and the role of repetition, social memory, allegory, and neoliberalism.

Distant Star

Roberto Bolaño,Chris Andrews
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Author : Roberto Bolaño,Chris Andrews
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811220521

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Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño,Chris Andrews Pdf

A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship. The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions. For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes the silent hand behind every evil act in the darkness of Pinochet's regime. The narrator, unable to stop himself, tries to track Ruiz-Tagle down, and sees signs of his activity over and over again. A corrosive, mocking humor sparkles within Bolano's darkest visions of Chile under Pinochet. In Bolano's world there's a big graveyard and there's a big graveyard laugh. (He once described his novel By Night in Chile as "a tale of terror, a situation comedy, and a combination pastoral-gothic novel.") Many Chilean authors have written about the "bloody events of the early Pinochet years, the abductions and murders," Richard Eder commented in the The New York Times: "None has done it in so dark and glittering a fashion as Roberto Bolano."

The Unknown University

Roberto Bolaño
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Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 839 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811222532

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The Unknown University by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

A deluxe edition of Bolano’s complete poetry Perhaps surprisingly to some of his fiction fans, Roberto Bolano touted poetry as the superior art form, able to approach an infinity in which “you become infinitely small without disappearing.” When asked, “What makes you believe you’re a better poet than a novelist?” Bolano replied, “The poetry makes me blush less.” The sum of his life’s work in his preferred medium, The Unknown University is a showcase of Bolano’s gift for freely crossing genres, with poems written in prose, stories in verse, and flashes of writing that can hardly be categorized. “Poetry,” he believed, “is braver than anyone.”

Last Evenings on Earth

Roberto Bolaño
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Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811216888

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Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

Stories of the "failed generation" set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe.

Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003

Roberto Bolaño
Between Parentheses Essays Articles and Speeches 1998 2003 Book PDF

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811218146

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Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003 by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

Collection of most of Bolaño's newspaper columns, articles (many about other literary authors), prefaces, and texts of talks or speeches given by Bolaño during the last five years of his life. "Taken together, they make a surprisingly rounded whole . . . a kind of fragmented 'autobiography.'"--Introduction, p.1.

By Night in Chile

Roberto Bolaño
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Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : Random House
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446442333

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By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying. A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events of his past swell around him. From glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger and his one-time student, General Pinochet, to nightmarish flashes of falcons and falconers, the Chilean landscape and faces of those now dead, reality and imagination crowd and clamber in pursuit of the ‘wizened youth’ who still haunts Father Lacroix all these years later. Translated by Chris Andrews Elegant, pocket-sized paperbacks, VINTAGE Editions celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found.

Antwerp (New Directions Pearls)

Roberto Bolaño
Antwerp New Directions Pearls Book PDF

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811219914

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Antwerp (New Directions Pearls) by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

"Antwerp's" signature elements--crimes and campgrounds, drifters and poetry, sex and love, corrupt cops and misfits--mark this, his first novel, as pure Bolao. A elegantly produced, small collectible stamped cover-on-cloth edition.

The Third Reich

Roberto Bolano
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Author : Roberto Bolano
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143182832

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The Third Reich by Roberto Bolano Pdf

A masterwork from the pre-eminent Latin American writer of his generation On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion, Udo Berger, returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals—the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado—and to the darker side of life in a resort town. Late one night, Charly disappears without a trace, and Udo’s well-ordered life is thrown into upheaval. Although Ingeborg and Hanna return to their lives in Germany, Udo refuses to leave the hotel. Soon he and El Quemado are enmeshed in a round of Third Reich, Udo’s favourite World War II strategy game, and he discovers that the game’s consequences may be all too real. Written in 1989 and found among Roberto Bolaño’s papers after his death, The Third Reich is a stunning exploration of memory and violence. Reading this quick, visceral novel, we see a world-class writer coming into his own—and exploring for the first time the themes that would define his masterpieces The Savage Detectives and 2666.

The Insufferable Gaucho

Roberto Bolaño
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Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811220538

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The Insufferable Gaucho by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

These five astonishing stories, along with two compelling essays, show Bolano as a magician, pulling bloodthirsty rabbits out of his hat. The stories in The Insufferable Gaucho — unpredictable and daring, highly controlled yet somehow haywire — might concern a stalwart rat police detective investigating terrible rodent crimes, or an elusive plagiarist, or an elderly Argentine lawyer giving up city life for an improbable return to the familye state on the Pampas, now gone to wrack and ruin. These five astonishing stories, along with two compelling essays, show Bolano as a magician, pulling bloodthirsty rabbits out of his hat.

The Savage Detectives

Roberto Bolaño
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Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780330525800

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The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

With an afterword by Natasha Wimmer. Winner of the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize. Natasha Wimmer’s translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times. New Year’s Eve 1975, Mexico City. Two hunted men leave town in a hurry, on the desert-bound trail of a vanished poet. Spanning two decades and crossing continents, theirs is a remarkable quest through a darkening universe – our own. It is a journey told and shared by a generation of lovers, rebels and readers, whose testimonies are woven together into one of the most dazzling Latin American novels of the twentieth century.

Roberto Bolaño's Fiction

Chris Andrews
Roberto Bola o s Fiction Book PDF

Author : Chris Andrews
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231537537

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Roberto Bolaño's Fiction by Chris Andrews Pdf

Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolaño's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oeuvre, engaging with its distinct style and key thematic concerns, incorporating his novels and stories into the larger history of Latin American and global literary fiction. Andrews provides new readings and interpretations of Bolaño's novels, including 2666, The Savage Detectives, and By Night in Chile, while at the same time examining the ideas and narrative strategies that unify his work. He begins with a consideration of the reception of Bolaño's fiction in English translation, examining the reasons behind its popularity. Subsequent chapters explore aspects of Bolaño's fictional universe and the political, ethical, and aesthetic values that shape it. Bolaño emerges as the inventor of a prodigiously effective "fiction-making system," a subtle handler of suspense, a chronicler of aimlessness, a celebrator of courage, an anatomist of evil, and a proponent of youthful openness. Written in a clear and engaging style, Roberto Bolano's Fiction offers an invaluable understanding of one of the most important authors of the last thirty years.

Woes of the True Policeman

Roberto Bolano
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Author : Roberto Bolano
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143186809

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Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolano Pdf

Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, The Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño's last, unfinished novel. The novel follows Amalfitano—an exiled Chilean university professor and widower with a teenage daughter—as his political disillusionment and love of poetry lead to the scandal that will force him to flee from Barcelona and take him to Santa Teresa, Mexico. This border town is haunted by dark tales of murdered women and populated by characters such as Sorcha, who fought in the Andalusia Blue Division in the Spanish Civil War, and Castillo, who makes his living selling his forgeries of Larry Rivers paintings to wealthy Texans. It is here that Amalfitano meets Arcimboldi, a magician and writer whose work highlights the provisional and fragile nature of literature and life. Woes of the True Policeman is an exciting, kaleidoscopic novel, lyrical and intense, yet darkly humorous. Exploring the roots of memory and the limits of art, it marks the culmination of one of the great careers of world literature.

Amulet

Roberto Bolaño
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Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811220484

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Amulet by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America. Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becoming the "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with the young poets in the cafés and bars of the University. She's tall, thin, and blonde, and her favorite young poet in the 1970s is none other than Arturo Belano (Bolano's fictional stand-in throughout his books). As well as her young poets, Auxilio recalls three remarkable women: the melancholic young philosopher Elena, the exiled Catalan painter Remedios Varo, and Lilian Serpas, a poet who once slept with Che Guevara. And in the course of her imaginary visit to the house of Remedios Varo, Auxilio sees an uncanny landscape, a kind of chasm. This chasm reappears in a vision at the end of the book: an army of children is marching toward it, singing as they go. The children are the idealistic young Latin Americans who came to maturity in the '70s, and the last words of the novel are: "And that song is our amulet."

The Skating Rink

Roberto Bolaño
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Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811220590

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The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

A phenomenally unusual three-way murder mystery. With a murder at its heart, Roberto Bolano’s The Skating Rink is, among other things, a crime novel. Murder seems to have exerted a fascination for the endlessly talented Bolano, who in his last interview, according to The Observer, “declared, in all apparent seriousness, that what he would most like to have been was a homicide detective.” Set in the seaside town of Z, north of Barcelona, The Skating Rink is told in short, suspenseful chapters by three male narrators, and revolves around a beautiful figure skating champion, Nuria Martí. A ruined mansion, knife-wielding women, political corruption, sex, and jealousy all appear in this atmospheric chronicle of a single summer season in a seaside town, with its vacationers, businessmen, immigrants, bureaucrats, social workers, and drifters.